Last week,Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Foundation Trust dropped plans to transfer more than 900 workers - including porters, cleaners and catering staff - to NHS subsidiary firm. This was a great victory for striking workers, who won this dispute through the strength of their industrial action. Yet that action was supported every step of the way by sustained political pressure from across the Labour Party.

We're pleased to present two new resources which we hope will help you to strengthen the union link where you live - a short, accesible guide and a training video. These are made for CLP TULO reps but should be of interested to any activist that wants to engage in joint campaigning between the movement and the Party at a local level. Find out more about the history of the union link, how unions and the Party work together and 10 ideas for joint campaigning.

I have been a trade unionist all my working life as I believe that trade union membership is the best way of ensuring fairness at work for employees. Similarly, I have been a member of the Labour Party for the majority of my adult life. As a socialist, I believe that the Labour Party’s values of equality, fairness and the need to build a society for the many not the few, are values I hold dear.

A big thank you to every unionstogether activist for what you did over the past few months to contribute to the election campaign – we won the support of millions of people, in every part of the country, for Labour’s manifesto of hope. And you made it all possible.

I’m not here to tell you how great the EU is. I know it needs to change, and I get why people are frustrated with it. But in the referendum there is something at stake that I care a lot about: rights at work.